Re: [PATCH v2] tty: 8250: fix a missing check for pci_ioremap_bar

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sun Mar 24 2019 - 08:26:46 EST


On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 2:05 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:55 AM Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > pci_ioremap_bar could fail. The fix captures the failure and
> > pass an error code upstream. This can avoid potential NULL
> > pointer dereferences in the future.
> >
>
> NAK.
> This will break non-DMA case.

> > @@ -172,12 +172,14 @@ static void qrk_serial_setup_dma(struct lpss8250 *lpss, struct uart_port *port)

Just to clarify, what you need is simple

void __iomem *regs;

chip->pdata = ... //move it here for better looking code
chip->irq = ...
chip->regs = pci_ioremap_bar(...);
if (!chip->regs)
return;

and thank you for pointing to this.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko